While the British Energy Security Strategy included ambitious targets, it was missing policy on demand side reduction, support for customers, onshore wind and energy efficiency.
Improving grid connections and boosting investor confidence should be key priorities for the government, the Association for Renewable Energy and Clean Technology (REA) has said.
Data regulation, the acceleration of vehicle-to-everything (V2X) approaches and standardisation of public electric vehicle (EV) charging payment methods are among key policy measures unveiled in today’s (25 March) Electric Vehicle Infrastructure Strategy.
While there are now clear, long term goals in place across most infrastructure areas, there has been slow progress in others such as electric vehicle charging and heat pumps, the National Infrastructure Commission (NIC) has found.
KrakenFlex CEO Devrim Celal tells Current± about how "we're at a point where people realise you can't live without flexibility", with global expansion plans in place for this year.
The Public Accounts Committee has said that the government has “no clear plan” for how the transition to net zero will be funded, nor a reliable estimate of what net zero will cost consumers, businesses or the government itself.
Deploying large quantities of long duration electricity storage (LDES) could reduce system costs and reliance on gas, but greater policy support is needed to enable this, Aurora Energy Research has found.
Hydrogen infrastructure won’t be viable for domestic heating applications at scale for at least the next decade, research from Imperial College London’s Energy Futures lab has found.
Government departments “lack a central coordination function to deliver green jobs”, the Environmental Audit Committee has said following the publication of the government’s response to its Green Jobs report.
